Melissa Chan

Melissa Chan is a national and foreign affairs reporter who previously worked as a broadcast correspondent for Al Jazeera. She is a collaborator with the Global Reporting Centre and a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Stories by Melissa Chan
US President Donald Trump (R) walks with North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un during a break in talks at the second US-North Korea summit at the Sofitel Legend Metropole hotel in Hanoi on Feb 28, 2019.

Strategic Lunacy Doesn’t Play in Reality
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A Chinese bank employee counts new 50-yuan notes with a money counting machine at a bank counter in Hangzhou in China's eastern Zhejiang province on August 30, 2019.

When the Numbers Don’t Add Up in China
Review |
Thae Yong-ho, a former North Korean deputy ambassador to the United Kingdom, on Jan. 19, 2017.

The Future of Korean Politics Might Be This Defector From Pyongyang
Profile |
Employees of the Gabonese pharmaceutical factory Sogafam

The Remaking of Big Pharma in a Post-Pandemic World
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A rescue worker wearing a protective suit checks on a driver at a roadblock near Milan, Italy, on Feb. 24.

The West Is About to Fail the Coronavirus Test
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